A civilization has the ethics it can afford.
--Larry Niven
Any damn fool can predict the past.
--Larry Niven
Anything you don't understand is dangerous until you do understand it.
--Larry Niven
Ethics change with technology.
--Larry Niven
Everything starts as somebody's daydream.
--Larry Niven
Fear is the brother of hate.
--Larry Niven
Forget the infinities: Concentrate on detail.
--Larry Niven
Half of wisdom is learning what to unlearn.
--Larry Niven
I do suspect that privacy was a passing fad.
--Larry Niven
Mother Nature doesn't care if you're having fun.
--Larry Niven
Never tell a computer to forget it.
--Larry Niven
No cause is so noble that it won't attract fuggheads.
--Larry Niven
No technique works if it isn't used.
--Larry Niven
One mark of a good officer... was the ability to make quick decisions. If they happen to be right, so much the better.
--Larry Niven
Psi and/or magical powers, if real, are nearly useless.
--Larry Niven
Sometimes there's no point in giving up.
--Larry Niven
Stupidity is always a capital crime.
--Larry Niven
The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program. And if we become extinct because we don't have a space program, it'll serve us right!
--Larry Niven
The gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.
--Larry Niven
The perversity of the universe tends towards a maximum. The universe is hostile.
--Larry Niven
The Unexpected always comes at the most awkward times.
--Larry Niven
There is never no hope left. Remember.
--Larry Niven
There is no cause so right that one cannot find a fool following it.
--Larry Niven
To witness titanic events is always dangerous, usually painful, and often fatal.
--Larry Niven
We learn only to ask more questions.
--Larry Niven
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